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We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.

Chuck Klosterman

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Chuck Klosterman
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 5
Author
Journalist
Music Critic
Breckenridge
Minnesota
Charles John Klosterman
Past
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Thinking
Least
Wrong
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Gay marriage should be legalized in america because gay men are the only men who want to be married.
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And I spilled gravy on my Carolina sweater, because I am alive.
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Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.
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[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.
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Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.
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The last girl I love will be someone I haven’t even met yet, probably.
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It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.
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I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.
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If Donald Trump loses badly, it could mean the end of the GOP as one of the two significant parties.
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Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.
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Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not- even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian- it's only a matter of time.
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Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.
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I am ready to be alone.
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We would sit in the living room, drink a case of Busch beer, and throw the empty cans into the kitchen for no reason whatsoever, beyond the fact that it was the most overtly irresponsible way for any two people to live.
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Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.
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